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Legal Ombudsman urges regulators to act over CFA concerns
Friday, 4 July 2014The profession’s regulators have failed to respond to a Legal Ombudsman report outlining its concerns about the way lawyers are operating conditional fee agreements (CFAs), the chief ombudsman has complained.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreements, Legal Ombudsman, LeO
Posted in ATE/CFA, News
Ombudsman warns about use of CFAs in an "aggressive" post-Jackson marketplace
Monday, 6 January 2014The Legal Services Ombudsman last year ordered remedies totalling nearly £1m in complaints relating to ‘no win, no fee’ agreements – a result it attributed to the harsh post-Jackson operating environment for law firms.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreements, Legal Ombudsman, LeO
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News
LSB tells ombudsman to monitor complaints about damages-based agreements
Thursday, 20 June 2013Continuing concern over the potential for mis-selling damages-based agreements has led the Legal Services Board to order the Legal Ombudsman to monitor the complaints it receives in relation to them.
Tags: damages-based agreements, DBA, Legal Ombudsman, Legal Services Board, LeO
Posted in DBAs, News
Legal Ombudsman: "easy" to see legal expenses insurance becoming compulsory
Thursday, 13 June 2013It is “easy” to imagine a world where legal expenses insurance becomes mandatory in the same way that car insurance is, the Chief Legal Ombudsman claimed today. Adam Sampson said they would also be keeping a close eye on how DBAs develop.
Tags: damages-based agreements, Legal Ombudsman
Posted in BTE, DBAs, News
Ombudsman: legal expenses insurance is a good thing – if only consumers understood it
Wednesday, 11 July 2012Legal expenses insurance is a good thing in the post-LASPO world but consumers have little understanding of it, the Legal Ombudsman warned today. He also highlighted unrealistic ‘no win, no fee’ promises and dubious fixed-fee services.
Tags: before-the-event, condition, fixed fees, legal expenses insurance, Legal Ombudsman, LeO
Posted in ATE/CFA, BTE, News